Middle East stands out as a key growth area for food providers in global packaged F&B, with market tipped to reach USD2.2 trillion by 2020 22 January 2017 Dubai, UAE: The most significant representation of leading F&B brands the MENA region has ever seen will soon be converging in Dubai, as more than 140 major international food and beverage producers come together at the new Power Brands […]
Helena Grech from Strasbourg Wednesday, 18 January 2017, 13:08 Last update: about 2 days ago Nationalist Party and European People’s Party MEP David Casa professed that he is “embarrassed” of his government over its role and handling of the Panama Papers scandal. His comments were made during a plenary session following the Prime Minister’s address at the European […]
Like most everything else in the computer world, NAS (or network-attached storage) appliances have been going through quite a bit of change. In this article, we’ll take a first look at what I’m calling a super-NAS, a device from the Taiwan-based Synology, Inc. Video, first look: Unboxing the Synology DS916+ super-NAS The most common use of a NAS is as a file server. Back when PCs ruled […]
By Brenda Goh and Muyu Xu | SHANGHAI/BEIJING SHANGHAI/BEIJING With 6 million Chinese tourists expected to travel abroad over the Lunar New Year break, China’s January 27 to February 2 holiday is crucial for Taiwan tour agency operator Li Chi-yueh, who relies on mainland visitors for a third of his revenue. But Li’s hopes are not high this year, after the number of mainland tourists plummeted 36 […]
Screw you. That was the direct message to the media from President Trump and his spokesman Saturday, using both CIA headquarters and the White House briefing room to underscore that there’s a new and combative sheriff in town. They accused the press of “deliberately false” reporting and intentionally trying to undermine him by lowballing the crowd at his inauguration. Even to some politically conservative observers, it appeared […]
TAIPEI The head of Foxconn, the world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronic goods and a major Apple Inc supplier, said on Sunday that the rise of protectionism is unavoidable. Terry Gou, chairman of Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, warned that uncertainties for this year make it tough to have a very clear analysis and outlook, but he said it was clear politics would […]
“I’m sorry,” said Ms. Najjar, 26, wiping her eyes. Hisham, who is shy and has large dark brown eyes, left the room to play with balloons. “It’s just that I almost lost him, not to violence or to war, but to diabetes.” A few birds singing in their cages brighten the grim space where Hisham’s family lives. But they also remind the family of what it left […]
ASTANA, Kazakhstan: Syria’s government and opposition fighters will on Monday sit down at the negotiating table for the first time in nearly six years of war, the latest diplomatic push to end hostilities. Hosted in the Kazakh capital Astana, the talks will see an opposition delegation composed exclusively of opposition groups negotiating with the regime of Bashar Assad in an initiative sponsored by opposition backer Turkey […]
For the first time, it is now possible to produce functional OLED electrodes from graphene. The OLEDs can, for example, be integrated into touch displays, and the miracle material graphene promises many other applications for the future. (via WSJ)
By Michael Georgy | MOSUL MOSUL Residents of east Mosul held up their children and took selfies with Iraqi counter-terrorism commander Lieutenant General Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi after his men cleared Islamic State fighters from their neighbourhoods. But his tour on Saturday of homes once occupied by the militants was a reminder of the dangers ahead as security forces prepare to expand their offensive against the Sunni militants into […]
TRIPOLI A car bomb exploded late on Saturday close to the recently re-opened Italian embassy in the Libyan capital, a security official said. It was not clear who was responsible for the blast. Two charred bodies were recovered from the car, according to a statement on a social media page run by a local branch of the Red Crescent, but the identity of the occupants was unknown. […]
A little-remarked shift of how the cloud is used and who uses it is well underway – and it could be music to your ears. Low-hanging fruit When cloud services first started, and for some considerable time afterwards, cloud services providers concentrated, quite naturally, on the low-hanging fruit. The battleground was centred around key but generic applications such as email, office productivity and storage, which quickly became […]
Dubai Opera will host the 2017 Professional Squash Association (PSA) Dubai World Series Finals in June, the first sporting event to be staged at the cultural arena. The PSA Dubai World Series Finals tournament is the pinnacle of the international squash season and sees the world’s top eight male and female ranked players compete to determine who will lift the final title of the 2016/17 season, and […]
By Ola Lanre | RANN, Nigeria RANN, Nigeria Around 15 Boko Haram fighters were killed when the jihadists attacked a town in northeastern Nigeria, two days after the air force accidentally killed dozens of people there, local and military officials said. On Tuesday, the air force said it had bombed Rann in Borno state, epicentre of Boko Haram’s seven-year-long attempt to create an Islamic caliphate in the […]
“We will spend what we need to spend to get this job done,” former prime minister Tony Abbott declared in March 2014, shortly after the multi-country effort to find recently downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. When do you give up on a mystery? The torturous MH370 question Anguish in Beijing as relatives learn MH370 has gone missing on March 9, 2014. Photo: Feng Li/Getty Danica Weeks, whose […]
By Pamela Barbaglia and Arno Schuetze | LONDON/FRANKFURT LONDON/FRANKFURT U.S. banks Morgan Stanley (MS.N) and Citigroup (C.N) have identified many of the roles that will need to be moved from Britain following its exit from the European Union, sources involved in the processes told Reuters. Morgan Stanley, which bases the bulk of its European staff in Britain, will have to move up to 1,000 jobs in sales […]
Samantha Wood, founder of independent review website www.foodiva.net who has more than 18,000 followers on Instagram, believes a restaurant serving top-class Arabian food should be the holder of Dubai’s first Michelin star – though she is not convinced the city is quite ready. “As much as I would love to see Michelin-star ratings in Dubai, I don’t think we have enough of a critical mass of restaurants […]
January 22, 2017 by: George Parker, Political Editor Theresa May will urge Donald Trump not to undermine European unity when she meets him in Washington within days, insisting that Britain sees a strong EU as a crucial partner on both economic and security issues. The White House announced on Saturday that Mrs May would meet with Mr Trump on Friday, making her the first foreign leader to […]
TOKYO, A day after Donald Trump became U.S. President and vowed to put “America First”, Asian media decried his isolationist policies, fearing they will chill the global economy and sow widespread international discord. In a defiant inaugural address, Trump said U.S. workers have been devastated by an outflow of jobs overseas, one of the main themes of a divisive campaign that emphasized making America strong again. In […]
As thousands celebrated the inauguration of the 45th president, thousands more have been marching at anti-Trump rallies. Both sides have been flooding media sites with traffic, giving big data analysts lots to work with. Like may other social analytics companies, content-delivery network Fastly was watching internet data during inauguration day yesterday. It looked at data spikes during the big moments of the day, particularly during Trump’s speech, […]
The head of Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has inaugurated its new smart rental service, described as the first of its kind in the Middle East. The service enables customers, especially public transport users, to rent cars for short periods not exceeding six hours via smart apps. The RTA said it has contracted with U drive and ekar to operate 200 vehicles (100 each) at a […]
When it comes to the future of bitcoin, the “holy grail” has emerged as becoming the first to have a bitcoin ETF approved by the SEC. Over three years ago, in 2013, the company of the Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, Winklevoss Capital Management LLC, launched the first proposed bitcoin ETF, the Winklevoss Investment Trust, looking to trade on the HFT-dominated BATS exchange. The SEC is expected […]
DUBAI Iranian rescuers have removed three bodies from the rubble of a high-rise building in Tehran that collapsed after a fire, a fire department spokesman said on Saturday, as hopes of finding survivors trapped beneath the shopping mall were fading. “Because of rekindling fires and the extreme heat…, we feel that it is unfortunately unrealistic that anyone would survive, although our hope is that some may come […]
BANJUL He vowed to rule Gambia for “a billion years”. But Yahya Jammeh, who ran the nation of 1.8 million for a generation after seizing power in 1994, was forced out by regional military forces this week after refusing to accept his defeat in a Dec. 1 election. True to his reputation as one of Africa’s most unpredictable leaders, Jammeh defied deadlines to leave power but then […]
